χαρακτήρ
Ancient Greek
    
    
Pronunciation
    
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /kʰa.rak.tɛ̌ːr/
 - (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /kʰa.rakˈte̝r/
 - (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /xa.rakˈtir/
 - (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /xa.rakˈtir/
 - (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /xa.rakˈtir/
 
Noun
    
χᾰρᾰκτήρ • (kharaktḗr) m (genitive χᾰρᾰκτῆρος); third declension
- instrument used for engraving
 - person who engraves, engraver
 - impress, stamp, seal
 - reproduction, representation
 - figure, letter, character
 - characteristic, character
 - style
 
Inflection
    
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | ὁ χᾰρᾰκτήρ ho kharaktḗr  | 
τὼ χᾰρᾰκτῆρε tṑ kharaktêre  | 
οἱ χᾰρᾰκτῆρες hoi kharaktêres  | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τοῦ χᾰρᾰκτῆρος toû kharaktêros  | 
τοῖν χᾰρᾰκτήροιν toîn kharaktḗroin  | 
τῶν χᾰρᾰκτήρων tôn kharaktḗrōn  | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῷ χᾰρᾰκτῆρῐ tôi kharaktêri  | 
τοῖν χᾰρᾰκτήροιν toîn kharaktḗroin  | 
τοῖς χᾰρᾰκτῆρσῐ / χᾰρᾰκτῆρσῐν toîs kharaktêrsi(n)  | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὸν χᾰρᾰκτῆρᾰ tòn kharaktêra  | 
τὼ χᾰρᾰκτῆρε tṑ kharaktêre  | 
τοὺς χᾰρᾰκτῆρᾰς toùs kharaktêras  | ||||||||||
| Vocative | χᾰρᾰκτήρ kharaktḗr  | 
χᾰρᾰκτῆρε kharaktêre  | 
χᾰρᾰκτῆρες kharaktêres  | ||||||||||
| Notes: | 
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Derived terms
    
- χαρακτηριάζω (kharaktēriázō)
 - χαρακτηρίζω (kharaktērízō)
 - χαρακτήρισμα (kharaktḗrisma)
 - χαρακτηρισμός (kharaktērismós)
 - χαρακτηριστέον (kharaktēristéon)
 - χαρακτηριστικός (kharaktēristikós)
 
Descendants
    
- Coptic: ⲭⲁⲣⲁⲕⲧⲏⲣ (kharaktēr)
 - → Latin: character (see there for further descendants)
 - Greek: χαρακτήρας (charaktíras)
 
References
    
- “χαρακτήρ”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
 - “χαρακτήρ”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
 - χαρακτήρ in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
 - Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
 - G5481 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
 - Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
 
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